Quotes About Empowerment

No woman has ever so comforted the distressed or distressed the comfortable. -- On Eleanor Roosevelt

Because I am a woman, I must make unusual efforts to succeed. If I fail, no one will say, 'She doesn't have what it takes." ~ ' They will say, 'Women don't have what it takes." -

A woman's best protection is a little money of her own.

It needs to become as easy to get hold of a condom in a poor country as Coca-Cola.

He is not standing on the shore of eternity beckoning us to join him there; he is standing beside us, strengthening us in this life.

For one has the right to shout. So, I am shouting.

I think we have to do forbidden things, otherwise we suffocate. But without feeling guilty and instead as an announcement that we are free.

Es la amante que no teme pues sabe que lo tendrá todo nuevamente

Liberdade? É meu último refúgio, forcei-me à liberdade e aguento-a não como um dom mas com heroísmo: sou heroicamente livre.

El destino de una mujer es ser mujer".

The minute she sensed he had left the house, however, she transformed, concentrated on herself and, as if she had merely been interrupted by him, continued slowly living.

But as long as I have myself I won't be alone

I am being joyful in this very instant because I refuse to be defeated: so I love.

Romperei todos os nãos que existem dentro de mim, provarei a mim mesma que nada há a temer

O destino de uma mulher é ser mulher.

Each child has a spark of genius waiting to be discovered, ignited, and fed. And the goal of schools shouldn't be to manufacture "productive citizens" to fill some corporate cubicle; it should be to inspire each child to find a "calling" that will change the world. The jobs for the future are no longer Manager, Director, or Analyst, but Entrepreneur, Creator, and even Revolutionary.

the religious models that had existed up until then did not adequately prepare us. Only through a process of radical self-empowerment—which Ikeda, expanding upon a term used by Toda, called Human Revolution—could human beings address issues that big. They couldn't be dealt with effectively by any one people, nation, or religion, but only by humanity as a whole.

Being an old maid is a little bit like drowning. A really delightful sensation once you give up the struggle.

el daño que se puede hacer al otro cuando no lo dejamos elegir más camino que aquel que nosotros creemos correcto.

Yo sé bastante de mecánica, pero él no sabe que sé, porque ocuparse de los autos es una tarea de los hombres, y como decía mi mamá, el día que cambiás un cuerito, sonaste, porque ya creen que sos plomera diplomada y no agarran un destornillador ni que se esté inundando la casa.

I beam back at her. Fuck the surgery, fuck the kids, fuck the men in our lives or no longer in our lives. This is sweet. When she catches up with me, I say, How many, just how many forty-plus women would do that? We gaze back up at the face bleeding into the chute we've just skied. We *did* that, I crow. Someone should love us just for that. --Hangfire

Another friend tells you you have to learn not to absorb the world. She says sometimes she can hear her own voice saying silently to whomever—you are saying this thing and I am not going to accept it. Your friend refuses to carry what doesn't belong to her.

Just 2 percent of the world's population and 5 percent of white people in the U.S. have blond hair, but 35 percent of female U.S. senators and 48 percent of female CEOs at S&P 500 companies are

Time Warner has called and they want us all back on the couch, just consuming — not producing, not sharing — and we should say, 'No.'